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Zusatztext "An important academic work that is accessible to general readers." Informationen zum Autor Hillel Cohen is Research Fellow at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of The Present Absentee: Palestinian Refugees in Israel since 1948 and Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Services and the Israeli Arabs . Klappentext "Cohen adds human insights to one of the most painful dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Fascinating."-Tom Segev! author of 1967: Israel! the War! and the Year that Transformed the Middle East "In Army of Shadows Hillel Cohen utilizes a broad range of sources in several languages to produce the most judicious and nuanced study available on the complex phenomenon of collaboration by Palestinian Arabs with agencies of the Zionist movement during the British mandate period. Cohen effectively explores the motives and contexts which led some Palestinians to collaborate with Zionism and assesses the extent to which such collaboration contributed to Zionism's success in acquiring land for Jewish settlement! overcoming Palestinian nationalist resistance! and laying the foundations of a Jewish state. This is a remarkable contribution to scholarship on the modern history of Palestine! on Palestinian society and politics! and on the Zionist project."-Zachary Lockman! author of Contending Visions of the Middle East: the History and Politics of Orientalism Zusammenfassung Raises questions about the roots of Israel-Palestine conflict. This book tells the story of Arabs who, from the very beginning of the Arab-Israeli encounter, sided with the Zionists and aided them politically, economically, and in security matters. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction I. TWO NATIONALISMS MEET! 1917-1935 1. Utopia and Its Collapse 2. Who Is a Traitor? 3. We! the Collaborators II. REBELS AND TRAITORS! 1936-1939 4. Old Collaborators! New Traitors 5. Unity Ends 6. The "Traitors" Counterattack III. WAR IN EUROPE! WAR AT HOME 7. World War! Local Calm 8. Prelude to War 9. Treason and Defeat: The 1948 War Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index ...
